District School No. 1

District School No. 1 (HMGH5)

Location: Patterson, NY 12563 Putnam County
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N 41° 30.831', W 73° 36.738'

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Patterson 200 Years

District School No. 1
(Patterson School)
1857 - 1912

At the time of the Revolution, a school was located near this site on land donated by Edmond Ogden, the husband of Sybil Ludington. At that time the education of children was a local affair, affordable only by the more well-to-do families, and the school was supported by fifteen patrons out of their own resources.

Starting in 1795, the State Legislature began experimenting with a number of ways of providing some measure of support to these schools., first in text books and later, in teacher training. By 1812, an actual school system existed and Patterson was divided into eight districts. An Education Fund was established by the Legislature and interest from it was distributed by the State to the Towns to pay for land, buildings, repairs, books, and supplies. Parents who could afford to send their children to the schools paid the remaining sixty percent of the costs. Teachers boarded with the families for periods of time proportional to the number of children in the family who were attending. One quarter cord of wood per child was also assessed.

The idea of free public education was raised for the first time at the State level in 1843, but six years of heated controversy followed before the principle was finally established as public policy in 1849 by Governor Hamilton Fish in his recommendations to the Legislature. Methods of funding and administering this policy continue to be a lively topic of debate to this day.

In 1853 Patterson voted to become a Union Free School District, leased part of the unused land owned by the Presbyterian Church and built this building as District School No. 1. The building remained in use for almost a half century until it was closed in the early 1900s. Classes were relocated to the "new" building on South Street, now the Administration Offices of the Carmel Central School District.

The unused building was bought and renovated by the Patterson Grange in 1912 and has been used by them since then as their meeting hall.
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Date Added Thursday, October 23rd, 2014 at 1:59pm PDT -07:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)18T E 615798 N 4596731
Decimal Degrees41.51385000, -73.61230000
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 41° 30.831', W 73° 36.738'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds41° 30' 49.86" N, 73° 36' 44.28" W
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Area Code(s)845, 203
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 976 NY-311, Patterson NY 12563, US
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